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4 THE TRI WEEKLY JO URANL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST- Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mai) Matter of the Second Class. Daily, Sunday, Tri-Weekly SUBSCRIPTION PRICE TRI-WEEKLY Twelve months $1.50 Eight months SI.OO Six months 75c Four months 50c Subscription Prices Daily and Sunday (By Mail —Payable Strictly in Advance) 1 W_.l 10. 3 Mu*, e Mos. 1 Yr. Daily and Sunday 20c feJc $2.50 $5.00 $9.50 Daily 16c 70c 2.00 4.00 7.50 Sunday 7c 30c .30 1.75 8.25 The Tri-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It. contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished con tributors. with strong departments of spe cial value to the home and the farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Lib eral comiAission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRADLEY, Circulation Man ager. The only traveling representatives we have are B. F. Bolton, C. C. 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Often This Georgia Eldorado THROUGH the mountain heights of Georgia there winds a gigantic chain of nationally owned forest lands, more than one hundred and fifty thousand acres of enchanting country, which if made generally accessible by roads and trails will become for the people of this and other States a true Eldorado of pleasure and health. By “the people” we mean not merely the fortun ate hundreds who have means and leisure for extensive vacations, but also the thou sands and tens of thousands who, while un able or unwilling to visit so-called resorts, •would find a camp amid the green and blue of those life-renewing hills quite affordable and their very heart’s desire. Few services would more valuable to the common wealth’s human interests, more helpful to its child-life and to its pent-up burden-bearers of home and office, farm and town, than to open to them the recreation and joy of this vast mountain park. An important step to that end has been recently suggested and ought to be taken forthwith. A fund of some nine million dol lars was appropriated by Congress in 1919 for “the survey, construction and mainte nance of roads and trails within, or partly within, the national forests.” Now, certain notable links in these "national forests” are composed of the Georgia lands to which we have referred In Union and Fannin coun ties the Government has acquired, under the Weeks Bill of 1911, sixty-eight thousand acres wherefrom to conserve the headwaters of streams flowing to the Gulf; and also, in Rabun and Habersham counties, eighty-five thousand acres as a like protection for the streams flowing to the Atlantic The former reservation is a part of the so-called Chero kee National Forest, and the latter a part of the Nantahala; both will be extended from time to time and will play a more and more important role in the nation’s great system of forest . eserves. Assuredly, then, a seasonable and rightly presented request should bring to bear for the opening up of these Georgia lands a por tion of the nine million dollars appropri ated for such purposes. Under the law, the Secretary of Agriculture, who is given charge of the fund, is authorized to “survey, con struct and maintain any roads or trails within a national forest, which he finds necessary for the proper administration, pro tection and improves ent of such forests, or which in his opinion is of national impor tance.” Engineers of the Federal Forestry Bureau are convinced from a careful study of the matter that roads and trails are now needed for the reservations in Georgia, and will lend their valuable support to a move ment to that end. Moreover, it was just such regions as these that former Secretary Lane, of the Department of the Interior, had in mind when he declared “There is no reason why this nation should not make its public health and scenic domain as available to all Its citizens as Switzerland and Italy make theirs. The aim is to open them thoroughly by road and trail and give access and accom modation to every degree of incomd.” That broad-visioned policy could find no more ap propriate field of application than in the wondrously picturesque and health-giving realm of the national forests of Georgia. In his highly .interesting remarks to a conference recently held in his office to consider this matter, Secretary McLendon, of the Georgia Department of State, direct ed attention to some of the charms and treasures of the country ultimately to be embraced in the Cherokee and Nantaha a reservations. There are numerous moun tains, he pointed out, which, if they were in Europe, would be shrines for pilgrims from all the world, but which to many a Georgian are as unknown as though they ■were ten thousand miles away instead of within an easy journey from any part of the State. Among those exceeding four thousand feet in height he mentioned: Enota, 4,768 feet; Rabun Bald, 4,717 feet; Chestnut Bald, 4.600 feet; Hightower Bald, 4,567; Blood Mountain, 4,463; Tray Moun tain, 4,398; Slaughter Mountain, 4,370; Coosa Bald, 4,287; Eagle Mountain, 4,280; Wolfpen RiiXge, 4,251; Chimhey Top Moun tain, 4,229; Horsetrough Mountain, 4,052; and Blue Mountain, 4,045; while between, three and four thousand feet are Leveland Mountain, 3,942; Cowrock Mountain, 3,867; Spaniard Nnob, 3,860; Strawberry Top, 3,- 74 4; Gumlog Mountain, 3,743; Glassy Knob, 3.650; Round Knob. 3,492; Bell Mountain, 3,446; Cedar Cliff Mountain, 3,391; Snake Mountain, 3,365; Round Top Mountain, 3,- 360;- Harris Mountain, 3,281; Turkeypen Mountain, 3,227; Frozen Top, 3,190; Yonah Mountain, 3,173; and Tesnatee Gap, 3,138 feet. How many Americans, how many Georgians, asks Secretary McLendon, know these “heaven-kissing” hills? Or how many know that in Dawson county of this State is next to the highest of the nation’s water falls, the beautiful AmicaloJa? North Caro lina’s famous Ashville, he observes, has an altitude of 1,896 feet; but the towns lo cated in this mountain region of Georgia have altitudes as follows: Mountain City, 2,161 feet; Hiawassee, 1,984 feet; Clayton, 1,959 feet; Young Harris, 1,928 feet; Blairsville, 1,892 feet; Clarksville, 1,872 feet; Porter Springs, 1,781 feet; Tallulah Falls, 1,629 feet; Cleveland. 1,571 feet, Mt. Airy, 1,522 feet; and Dahlonega, 1,484 feet; so that in northeast Georgia the na tion si beginning the creation of a nation al playground of incalculable value and of national importance. If further evidence of the national im portance of these forest lands were needful it could be found in Secretary McLendon’s reminder that Georgia has within her bor- THE- ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ders three hundred and ten thousand, seven hundred and thirty-seven farms, more than any other State save Texas and “exactly seven thousand and fifty-three more than are within the six New England States with Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Wyoming added.” Surely, then, Government funds will be wise ly and justly invested if used to open for the public’s advantage the resources of pleas ure and health which the national park of this great productive Commonwealth affords. Let Georgia’s rightful claims, which are es senitally the nation’s claims as well, be duly presented to the Secretary of Agriculture while conditions are still propitious, and a favorable response may be expected. Progress in Air Mail Service WHEN air mail service is established between Atlanta and New York City, as it will be in the course of the next sixty days if all goes well with official plans, the latest achievement will be scored in a national enterprise which has been steadily developing for some two and a half years. It was on May 15, 1918, in the face of many doleful prophecies that the United States Postoffice Department launched its experiment of carrying mail by airplane be tween Washington and New York. So en couraging were the results that in the ensu ing year a similar line was inaugurated be tween New York and Cleveland, and then ex tended to Chicako. “Some -day,” the now converted sceptics exclaimed, “the air post will sweep on to San Francisco.” They spoke more in atonement of their original ill-bod ing than in expectation of ever seeing their happier prophecy come to pass. But on Sep tember 13, 1920, service was started between Gotham and the Golden Gate; and now the transcontinental line of two thousand six hundred and sixteen miles is in regular op eration. Leaving New York at 6:30 a. m., Eastern time, the mail airplane arrives at Chicago at 3:27 that afternoon; leaves at 6 the next morning and arrives at Cheyenne, Wyoming, 4:25 p. m.; thence it departs at 5:30 a. m. the following day, which is the third morn ing of its flight, and at 3:25 p. m. descends at San' Francisco. With the planes thus fly ing only by day, the time of the transconti nental trip is nevertheless greatly reduced. But soon, it is expected, they will be flying by night as well, and then mail will be sped from New York to San Francisco in thirty six hours. “Speed,” writes Brigadier General William Mitchell, in the December Review of Re views, “is the predominant characteristic of airplane traffic.” And speed is being contin ually developed, not only in the machines themselves, but also by increasing their hours of flight and b; adjusting them more and more advantageously to prevailing winds. “Speed varies,” says General Mitchell, “from sixty-five miles an liour with the slowest airplanes—such as the Curtiss training ships, with 150-horsepower motors —to eighty miles an hour with the DeHavilands with 40-horsepower motors. At this speed more than eighty-five t per cent of the trips are made on scheduled time.” It is worth noting in this connection that in the first twelvemonth of the Washington-Philadelphia- New York service, ninety-three per cent of all the trips scheduled were completed; and that of the seven per cent of failures, more than half were caused by stormful weather, in spite of which there were successful flights in gales as swift as sixty-eight miles an hour. In the year now drawing to a close, both the regularity and the average speed of the service will show considerable better ment, thanks to improved safeguards against the freezing of radiators and engines and to the general efficiency gain which comes with experience. A system which reduces the time of mail transmission fifty to one hundred per cent or more is obviously of vast value to com merce, if it can be maintained at a reason able cost. Touching this point, General Mitchell refers to figures which show, as far as the experiment has gone, that mail carry ing by airplane is cheaper than by railway. “This at first appears strange,” he says, “until it is considered that the mail cars are really traveling postoffices, that heir size is always the same, that is, a sixty-foot car that is always filled with racks and cases which - may or may not be full, and are paid for on the size of the car, regardless of con tents. The postoffice figures show that it costs four hundred thousand uolla.x annu ally to operate a fifteen hundred-pound mail carrying airplane on one round daily trip between New York and Chicago, and that the use of the airplane between these two terminals does away with the railroad facili ties which cost five hundred thousand. In other words, hey claim that a saving of one hundred thousand dollars would be made in the item of cost.” This, of course, is not to be taken as im plying that the end of the railway mail ser vice is at hand or is within calculable dis tance. But it can be doubted no longer that air mail service is quite practicable, and. for some purposes exceedingly advantageous. An aggregate of nearly seven thousand miles is now traversed by the nation’s aerial carriers each day, and import - .nt additio- are forth coming. Os these, the Atlanta-W ashington link will be one of special interest, marking as it will the advent of a new era of aviation in the South. | A Columbus, Ga., Centennial IT is heartily to be hoped that Columbus, Georgia, will prosper in plans for a fit ting celebration cf its one hundredth an niversary in 1927. In approving a suggestion to that end from Mr. L. H. Chappell, presi ident of the city’s Historical Society, the Ledger remarks: “We can have a centen nial that will be of nationwide interest. With people from nearly every State in the Union already at Camp Benning and with prospects of its population’s being more than trebled within the next few years, Columbus will have lots of kinsfolk in every part of the country.” Certainly Georgia and neighboring States can be counted upon to take cordial interest, in observance of the event. Both in goodly traditions and in present day industrial and commercial activities Columbus means much to this Commonwealth and to the South. During the War Between the States the city, standing at the head of navigation on the Chattahoochee, was one of the Confederacy’s especially important supply depots, being ex ceeded only by Richmond in the quantity of manufactured articles it furnished the armies of the South. In the World War it again be came a center of prime importance, this time in a military as well as industrial way; and as the permanent seat of a great Army training school, its prestige in this respect bids fair to go on increasing. Years ago, because of its extensive textile manufactures, the city came to be called “the Lowell of the South. ’ Its later development in such interests has even surpassed its earlier promise; and from its still latent water power, we may infer that the most remarkable growth is yet to come. Along with this material progress Columbus has evolved a personality and a culture dis tinctively its own. A century of such achieve ments is abundantly worth celebrating. Mav the plans and their consummation prove worthy of the cause. A woman may love flattery and yet de spise an awkward flatterer. The fool man and the wise trout are slow in catching on. HYGIENE OH THE SKIN By H. Addington Bruce ''"j’w O keep the skin in as good condition | as possible is a more important mat ter than most people appreciate. This because the skin is a bodily organ which helps in numerous ways to conserve health. And at this season of the year it is in particular dan ger of being treated unhygienically. Skin hygiene, for example, imperatively requires that the air be given some freedom of access to tjie skin, even when clothing is worn, and even when the weather is cold. This means that outer clothing should be of fairly open weave and not fit too snugly, and that underclothing should be light and also of open weave. But most people, at the outset of col dweather don heavy, close woven tightly-fitting attire, both outer and under. After bathing, especially in cold weather, the skin should be thoroughly dried. Neg lect to do this, followed by outdoor exposure when the wind is raw and cutting, means “chapped” hands and faces. And the “chaps” may all too easily become portals for the entrance of disease germs. Also, the precaution should be taken after bathing to rinse all soap off the skin before drying. Moreover, while cleanliness is a virtue, there is such a thing as overdoing it and bathing too frequently for the good of the skin. Too frequent bathing tends to rob the skin of the oil essential to its health, also to check normal secretion of oil. In one physician’s warning words: “A general lack of oil produces a constant wasting of bodily heat, resulting in the pa tient’s feeling any sudden change of tem perature, which the normal oil prevents.” And: “When sufficient oil is present the skin is flexible, whereas a penury of oil gives a harsh, dry skin, the epithelium of which cracks, exposing sensory nerve endings, with resultant itching and burning. “Os the number of individuals who come to the dermatologist with skin affections, the majority definitely show’ a lack of oil, due in most cases, to improper toilet, or to a tem porary derangement from recent local or constitutional diseases.” As an aid in insuring a normal oil supply, the use of cold cream, olive oil, etc., on the skin is of little value, however helpful these may be in softening and improving the ap pearance of the skin. More helpful far is vigorous bodily exercise daily, the eating of really nourishing food, and otherwise meet ing the requirements of general hygiene. Brief air baths for all parts of the body daily are of special contributory value to the health of the skin. By this is not meant “cold air” baths —merely an “open-to-the room-air” treatment, said “room air” not be ing draughty and being of a temperature of about 70 degrees. Finally, all cosmetics that may seal and choke the pores of the skin should be sedu lously avoided. Painted faces are no* only unattractive faces. The paint that “adorns” them produces ill health, just as it promotes, however wrongly, mistrust and suspicion of the fool ish painter. , JEWELRY By Dr. Frank Crane A lady in New’ York City was robbed of $767,000 worth of jewelry. Returning home at night, as she entered her home she was set upon by burglars. At temping to escape she fell down stairs and broke the bones of her foot. The miscreants then bound and gagged her and kept her locked up in the bathroom till after daylight, attempting at inervals to frighten her by threats of torture to make her tell w’here more jewelry was hidden. They stripped the rings from her fingers and took all the rest of her expensive orna ments they could find. It must have been a frightful experience for any one, particularly for a sensitive woman. It is mentioned and emphasized here so that others, and particularly sensitive women, may see what caused it all, and may awake to the terrific danger to which they are exposed by the vicious custom of society and by their own love of display. There’s a lesson in all this. It is that the possession of jew’elry is an invitation to crime. The lady in the case seems to realize this now, for she said in an interview: “I’m disgusted with the world. I’ve lost all my'jewels, m’ore than half my fortune. They left me only this diamond-studded cigarette case, a gold toilet set, and hardly anything else of the priceless possessions that I loved. “Maybe I was a fool to put so much money in jewels, but I loved them. Maybe it would have been better to have put it into property that would have brought in an income. It was foolish no to have had them insured for more money than I did, but that is past.” She says she was a fool, maybe. We shall not dispute a lady. But there are others. Was there ever anything but sheer evil in jewels? The history of every famous stone is mark ed by blood, cruelty, and crime. The only reason anybody owns one in the first place is about the lowest motive in the list—vanity. Back of every display of diamonds and pearls is sheer vulgarity, and that whether the displaye- can afford them or not. And who really “can afford” to take the price of men’s lives and women’s protection and children’s training—in other words, the very congealed essence of life itself—and wear it. around the neck or flash it upon the fingers? The ownership of SIOO,OOO worth of jew elry is something any clean-hearted human being may ve.y well be ashamed of. And afraid of. For it is a standing ad vertisement for every crook that passes by to use his lead pips or his knife. The wearing of jewelry ought to pass, with the czars, kaisers, counts, and no-counts of the Old World.. whose sign of swollen ego tism. and of indifference to the common good, it was. (Copyright, 1 9 20, by Frank Crane) POINTED PARAGRAPHS Dodging duty never brings success. No, Alfred, it is not the bad eggs that produce the tough chickens. When a woman takes the conceit out of a man she adds to her own. Putting a little more in than you take out will eventually fill your purse.- One of the ambitions of the average man is to do those he has been don.e by. Marriage isn’t necessarily a failure, but it is seldom what it is supposed to be. How anxious people are to help you when you are in a position to help yourself. It’s a poor brand of religion that does not cause a man to try to treat his neigh bors decently. If a man does the best he can, and declines to brag about it, he is a pretty good chap to tie to. Doubtless every man has bad moments when he imagines he would wake up some morning and find himself famous. The Pursuit of the Dope Seller By Frederic J. Haskin SAN FRANCISCO, Cal , Nov. 27. —San Francisco has'recently been engaged in deadly combat with a la ge and power ful opium ring. Opium raids and arrests have been made daily. By some secret means opium has been smuggled into the city’s port, and from here cleverly distribut ed throughout the United States. The state of California has recently increased its force of inspectors to meet the emergency. The other day, great excitement was caus ed by the arrest of two leading members of what is thought to be an international gang engaged in the smuggling and dispensing of dope. They w’ere found living in quiet grand eur at a fashionable hotel, with every ap pearance of dignified respectability. They presented a convincing denial to the in spector’s charges. Unfortunately, however, they had neglected to dispose of a couple of trunk checks- in their possession. These checks were for two trunks, one dispatched from San Francisco to Chicago, and the other to Boise, Idaho, and each containing thousands of dollars worth of opium. Further investigation showed them to be in conni vance w’ith a suspected Chinaman, the opera tor of an opium joint, whose place was raided. The chasing of narcotic drug peddlers is the most difficult kind of criminal detection work. Often it is also the most thankless task, because only the city authorities are in terested in prosecuting them. The people who are their victims have no such interest, and often conspire to obtain a peddler’s re lease once he is in prison. Very seldom, moreover, can a drug addict be induced to give any information concerning the source of his dope supply. “The man who has had his pocket picked, the storekeeper whose store has been robbed, the citizen whose hea ’ has been broken by a footpad, the man whose Aealth has been in jured with a bullet, all of them are willing to furnish aid in securing the arrest of the guilty party or parties,” declared Louis Zeh, secretary of the board of pharmacy the other day, “but the drug user, though the guilty party is robbing him of his very life, is un willing to see him put where he belongs—in jail.” » Drug Users Help Nevertheless, in answer to the appeals of the board of pharmacy for information re garding peddlers, some important tips were received from drug addicts who professed a sincere desire to overcome- the habit of drug using. In fact, the tips were so significant that the board recentl- made the optimistic assertion that, with the co-operation of the local police and federal officials, the peddling of narcotics in San Francisco will soon/' be come an activity too dangerous even for the iron-headed band of traffickers now at large. “We are going to clean them up or drive them out of business,” it said. Oae of the tips received by the board was from an ex-drug peddler himself. “I have read with interest in the paper that they want to get the higher-ups,” it read. “Well, they have got to go far. I have sold lots of it anc I have finally quit. But I wholesaled it, never peddled it on the streets. I got mine from the Japs in Seattle. They have got enough there to put two states to sleep. “The port of Seattle is a bigger importing point than San Francisco. Give the govern ment officials the tip that the dope is sent over to Japan and is then reshipped to the United States—” The existence of an opium ring is nothing new in San Francisco. It is merely the re vival of an evil which has sprung up every time a heavy restriction has been placed upon the importa t{ OL of narcotic drugs. In spite of what the drug peddler said about Seattle, San Francisco, which is the port of entry for most steamers from the Orient has the dis tinction of being the place selected by the smugglers as their basis of operations. It is always deluged with narcotic drugs, and it is always trying frantically to get rid of them. Thus the records of the local cus toms office show that a powerful opium ring was operating in 1909 and 1910 after Presi dent Roosevelt signed a bill prohibiting the importation of smoking opium into this country. And t enty years before that, when a sudden popular agitation rose against narcotic drugs, another ring of smugglers was playing tag with the customs officials. Since the passing of the Harrison Anti- Narcotic law, several rings have come into existence and gone out again. But trained by long experience the authorities are now well equipped for their work and the pro cess of extinction is becoming more and more expert. The customs officials have learned to search every nook and cranny of a vessel for drugs: to inspect every sailor and mechanic employed on its decks, to takfe all of its furniture apart, and still to be per fectly sure that opium is hidden somewhere In the near vicinity of their activities. Where They Hide It Opium has been found in coal bunkers, in the engines of the vessel, in its flour bins, in hollow books, and even in pianos and in the ship’s siren. Sometimes it has been dis covered behind false paneling and under staircases and concealed in hollow beams. One large shipment of over a thousand tins was taken from nine large, heremetically sealed cylinders in the watei tanks of a large ocean liner. Opium users, who in clude the addicts of such drugs as morphine and heroin containing opium, are unable to get along without their dope, and are willing to pay any price for it; hence, the smug gling of the drug, if successful, is an enormoustly profitable undertaking. It is merely a question of thinking of a place to hide it, which has never been thought of before. There is, however, another, and in the end more fatal, method of combatting opium rings, and that is through their victims — the drug addicts. In recent years, it has become commonly understood that the vic tims of the drug habit are sick people, and not necessarily “dope fiend.” Cities have become awaie of their responsibility to these unfortunates, and no longer put them in jail, but in hospitals. A few cities, which have tackled the problem in an especially vigor ous manner, have established clinics and special hospitals for their drug victims. Last year New’ York had a drug clinic, where ad dicts were supplied with narcotic drugs on a sliding downward scale until the patient had reached an irreducible minimum—that is, the smal’est possible amount on which he could get along. Then they were placed in hospitals 'o be cured. Some Doctors Guilty Unfortunately, New’ York, like every other city carrying on an anti-narcotic drug cam paign, was handicapped in its work by the illegal activities of persistent peddlers, many of them doctors. When the drug clinic w r as opened by the city health department, with the announcement that every drug addict must come there for his supply of drugs, a great and indignant wail arose from several ‘New York doctors. It was an outrage, they asserted, to bring the matter thus into the open. Families would be broken up when husbands found their wives at the clinic, and vice versa. One prominent physician made a particularly eloquent speech in this con nection which brought tears of sympathy to many of his auditors’ eyes. And mean time in the clinic at least 50 per cent of the drug addicts w’ere recording on their regis tration cards the name of this same physi cian as the source of their drug supply. What New York did for its drug addicts, San Francisco is just beginning to attempt. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1920. Around the World Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over the Earth. High Temperature At Greenland ranch, in Death Valley, California, the air temperature, as re corded by a tested maximum thermom eter exposed in a standard instrument shelter, rose to 100 degrees or higher on twenty-three days during June, and on every day during July, 19 20, says a bulle tin of the American Meteorological socie ty. The extreme maximum was 125 de grees, recorded on the last day of July. On July 10,1913, the temperature there reached 134 degrees Fahrenheit, the high est officially recorded air temperature' in the world. Dry Campaign To combat excessive use of intoxicating li quor in England a campaign will be inaugu rated by the “Fellow'ship of Freedom and Reform,” whose chief planks will be indi vidual freedom, true temperance, reform of public house, and abolition of drunkenness. Cut Red Tape Changes in the correspondence work of the army designed to save paper and eliminate unnecessary labor were an nounced today by Adjutant General Harris as having been approved by Secretary Baker. The changes, which were described as drastic, follow the recommendations of a board of officers w’hich investigated the “paper work” of the army. Rat Casualties The total number of rats killed in Paris since the opening of the offensive September 12 last Is 101,458. \ Diamonds Froth the Sea Diamonds washed up from the sea on the coast of Southwest Africa in 1918 totaled 1,284,727 karats, valued at $13,132,250. This is according to government scientists who investigated the coastal diamond field, which is 270 miles long and was discovered in 1908. These gems are found chiefly in the Pomona district and never more than fifteen miles from the shore. Most of them are extremely small. Although one of thir ty-four karats has been discovered, the av erage size is one-fifth of a karat. They are embedded in the beaches or in sand dunes. The diamonds are of many colors. Clear white crystals make up the bulk of them. Yellow’s, pink, purplish, bluish, green and black stones occur. The gems are charac terized by greater brilliancy in the rough than any others found in South Africa. Lofty Mountain Many persons believe "that Mount ' Washington, in New Hampshire, is the highest mountain in the eastern part of the United States. Mount Washing ton stands 6,293 feet above sea level according to the United States Geologi cal Survey, Department of Interior, but many peaks in the southern Appa lachians are several hundred feet higher than New Hampshire’s famous moun tain. The highest mountain in the Ap palachian system—the highest point in the United States east of th*. Rockies— is Moun Mitchell, in North Carolina, which stands at an elevation of 6,711 feet. The highest mountain in Tennes see, Mount Guyot, stands 6,636 feet above sea level. New Inventions A Massachusetts inventor has devised a glove cleaning machine which is some what like an ice cream freezer. The soiled gloves are dropped into gasoline or other cleaning fluid and whirled around by a perforated blade through which the liquid is forced. After the handle has been turned about three minutes the gloves may be taken out spotless. Shoe State The National Geographic Magazine calls attention to the fact that Massachusetts is a shoe state. Brockton is pre-eminently the man’s shoe town, Lynn claims first place in the manufacture of women’s shoes and Hav erhill prides itself on being the slipper city of the world. Massachusetts has an export trade that reaches ninety countries and colo nies. * “Color” To Be Studied Dresden is soon to have an institute for the development of the scientific study of “color” and the adaptation of the results of research for industrial purposes. Turkey Bars Dictionaries Dictionaries are forbidden entrance to Turkey because the Sultan is usually men tioned in such books, and that is contrary to Turkish law. Poets’ Contest Poetry championship contests will be held in Buenos Ayres in 1921, with the poets of all Latin America invited to participate and prizes amounting to about $44,000 gold to be distributed. The tournament of verse, called in Span ish, “juegos florales” or “flower games,” is being organizer’ by the young women’s com mittee of the Argentine Patriotic League. Through the Argentine diplomats in all Spanish-speaking American countries, poets from every part of the hemisphere will be in vited to tUke part, those who receive the prizes being invited to come to Argentina at the expense of the association. Bathtubs a Luxury? Bath tubs and bathroom fixtures ap pear on the list of “luxuries” ’’which would be subject to a 10 per cent luxury tax in Holland if a revenue bill now be fore the Dutch Parliament is passed. Poison in Ring In Paris a collector bought an antique finger ring in which was figured a lion with sharp claws of steel. From these claws he received an accidental scratch of which he nearly died. Investigation showed the claws were hollowed and communicated with a small poison re ceptacle in the ring. Crime Chart, Charles Fitzmorris, new superin tendent of the Chicago order ed a chart prepared showing the home of every known criminal in Chicago. Patrolmen will be required to report each time a man with a record moves, his pin will be shifted from the old ad dress to the new. The chart is another step in the chief’s drive to clean up Chicago. That is, it is making an effort to treat them as sick people and to put them into hos pitals instead of fining them and putting them in jail. Men addicts are still treated in jail, it is true, because there is not suf ficient hospital space to accommodate them, but it is at least significant that thfey are being treated. Mort of the women are being placed in an isolated hospital, where every possible precaution is taken to see that no drugs are smuggled in from outside sources. M ..nwhile the state is considering the es tablishment of an isolated drug addict colony on one of the Pacific coast islands. DOROTHY DIX TALKS BY DOROTHY DIX Children’s Book Week Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syndi cate, Inc. OF all the different "weeks” we are called upon to celebrate, none is more worthy of observance than children’s book week, for there is no other talisman that we can put into the hand of the ydhing that will so surely protect them against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune a* a book will. ’ It is something that adds to the joy of life at its most glorious moment. It is a com fort that soothes in the blackest hour of de spair. It is a friend that never fails, and the one sure refuge from boredom. No one who has a good book can ever lack of brilliant society, or of entertainment, or amusement. He has always a congenial com panion to whom he can turn, secure of find -ing the same warm welcome, smiling up to him from the printed page; certain always of getting the old thrill of adventure, or the brave words of cheer that put fresh courage into the faint heart, or the message of wis dom that directs aright his faltering foot steps. Books are the real fairy tales come true, for they have but to wave their magic wand and, presto, all our dreams come true. Are you born to dire poverty, one of those un fortunates who must ever listen to the wolf howling at the door? Open a book, and all the wealth of the world is yours. You may feast on nightingales’ tongues on plates of gold in a baronial hall. You may roll around in a twenty thousand-dollar car, and swathe yourself in silken robes as you step from your perfumed bath, while your valet decides which one of your forty-seven different va rieties of suits he will put on you. Are you a homely, dried-up, shabby little old maid, who earns her living by her needle, and to whom no breath of romance has ever come? Open book, and you become young and beautiful, a Helen whose face launches a thousand shipc. Suitors sigh at your feet. The very air breathes love and passion, and you glow, and thrill, and tremble at the com ing of your lover, and half sv oon with joy as his strong arms close about you and your heart finds its home on his breast. Do you long to and ar. you held fast to some particular spot which you can never hope to leave? Open a book, and the whole wide world is yours. You may sail through tropic seas, and sniff the cherry blossoms of Japan, and watch the never-end ing procession through the treets of Pekin, , and the faithful come down to pray at the « Ganges, and roam the boulevards of Paris, and listen to the bells of St. Paul in Lon don. Books give us all we ask of life, and he who has them is rich, though he has nothing else, and he who has them not is poor in deed, no matter what else he possesses. It is, therefore, of the utmes. importance that children should have a love of books inculcated in them in their earliest youth, and should be taught the habit of reading them. Most parents seem to be of the opinion of Dogberry, that reading and writing come by nature, and in the guise of a talent, such as a tenor voice, or an ability to draw pic tures that can be recognized at sight. There fore, they rejoice, and brag abou it, when little Johnnie and Marj are bookworms, but they feel they have no responsibility when Johnnie and Mary prefer balls and dolls to perusing the nice little volumes they got on their birthdays.. The parental attitude is that some children are “bookish” and some are not, just as some children have curls and some have straight hair. It is fate. Kis met! And they let it go at that. The truth is that very few children are born with a love of books. It is one of the graces of life that has to be cultivated in them, like speaking the truth, and kindness to dumb animals. The point is that it can be cultivated in them, and that once we have established the habit of reading, it is the most unbreakable habit in life. And it’s the habit that will do more to keep a girl of boy out of mischief than all the ten commandments. For it is the lack of something interesting to do, some way to fill in the time, that leads young people into *bad company, and so on down the road to ruin. The boy who loves to read can pass a pleasant evening at home. He doesn’t have to foregather with the gang on the corner. The girl who can find pleasure in a book isn’t out on a perpetual still-hunt for any kind of beau who will take her around to dancq halls and any place of amusement where there is something doing. And when one’s youth ,is passed and one comes to middle life, books ar the bulwark of the home. Not without reason has the conventional picture of domestic bliss repre sented the happy family gathered about the evening lamp. The reading man is never the man who wanders away from his home fireside as soon as he swallows his dinner, to seek for di version. The reading woman is never the woman whose idea of earthly bliss is to chase around from cabaret to cabaret and restau rant to restaurant. Perhaps even the most middle-aged and married of people# have their passing mo ments when they yearn for adventure, and a whiff of romance, but if they are reading people, they do not follow the beckoning fin per in person. They get down their favorite novel and take their romance vicariously ) through their most alluring heros and her- ' oines. And all well. For these, and a million other reasons, teach your children to love books. It is the sure ticket to the realms of the blessed. QUIPS AND QUIDDIES When things go wrong with us it isn’t our own fault. Os course not! The trouble is with those about us. If our neighbors or as sociates had only treated us rightly there would have been no trouble. It’s too bad that the “other fellow” should be so lacking in fair dealing, in kindliness, in considera tion. Isn’t it? If others would always obey the Golden Rule, if they would always obey our desires and act in accordance with our principles, how pleasant our relations might be! How little trouble we should have! Why don’t they? Principally because they are human like ourselves —not spineless jelly fishes. Queer, isn’t it, that they dare to have convictions of their own, that they do not always do right (of course we do!), and that we find our selves at variance in many lines of thought? How much better it would be could we all be fashioned on exactly the same pattern of mental convolutions, so ou,r thoughts would run in exactly the same grooves! But it wouldr’t be better! Such a condi tion would make for deadening monotony and lack of creative power? It surely would. Any one with even half a brain could easily see that. But why, then, expect the other fellow to come all the way? Why not respect his con victions, excuse his shortcomings, listen to ,- his arguments—all this without rancor or contempt or resentment even? Why not give to him the same charity that we need at times? Why not?